Brigadoon (film) Quotes

Brigadoon (film) is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . Brigadoon stopped airing in 1970.

It features Arthur Freed as producer, Alan Jay Lerner (Lyrics) in charge of musical score, and Joseph Ruttenberg as head of cinematography.

Brigadoon (film) is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The cast includes: Van Johnson as Jeff Douglas, Gene Kelly as Tommy Albright, Dodie Heath as Meg Brockie, Albert Sharpe as Andrew Campbell, Barry Jones as Mr. Lundie, Jimmy Thompson as Charlie Chisholm Dalrymple, and Hugh Laing as Harry Beaton.

Brigadoon (film) Quotes

Hugh Laing as Harry Beaton

• (Hugh Laing) "I'm leaving Brigadoon. 'Tis the end of all of us. The miracle is over."

• (Hugh Laing) "All that I've done was to want ye too much."

Van Johnson as Jeff Douglas

• (Van Johnson) "-- There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiancee's best friend. He knows all the secrets she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to find out."

• (Van Johnson) "Frank, put it on the bill."
• (Unnamed) "The bill, sir, is very high."
• (Van Johnson) "So am I."

• (Van Johnson) "Can you think of one good reason why I, a strange man, should be interested in proposing to you, a mighty strange woman and at this hour of the day?"
• (Dodie Heath) "Because you're a lad and I'm a lass."
• (Van Johnson) "Well, with that philosophy you must have had a provocative career."

• (Van Johnson) "You're confused, aren't you boy? If you believed as much as you thought you believed, you wouldn't be confused."

• (Van Johnson) "If they want to disregard two hundred years of human bing-bang, that's their privilege."

• (Van Johnson) "If there's anything I hate -- it's you."

Dodie Heath as Meg Brockie

• (Dodie Heath) "I'm highly attracted to you. Why, when I look at you I feel wee tadpoles jumping in my spine."
• (Van Johnson) "That's about as repulsive an idea as I've heard in years."

Barry Jones as Mr. Lundie

• (Barry Jones) "What happened in Brigadoon was a miracle, and most folks dinna believe in miracles. Miracles require faith, and faith seems to be as dead as --"
• (Van Johnson) "Mr. Forsythe?"
• (Barry Jones) "Aye."

• (Barry Jones) "Tommy lad, you. My, my. You must really love her. You woke me up."
• (Barry Jones) "Come, lad."
• (Barry Jones) "You shouldna be too surprised. I told ye -- if you love someone deeply enough, anything is possible."
• (Barry Jones) "Even -- miracles ?"

• (Barry Jones) "It's the hardest thing in the world to give everything. Though it's usually the only way to get everything."

• (Barry Jones) "She's a dear lass."
• (Gene Kelly) "I'm just beginning to find that out."

• (Barry Jones) "Two hundred years ago, the highlands of Scotland were plagued with witches, wicked sorcerers that were taking the Scottish people away from the teachings of God and putting the Devil into their souls. They were indeed horrible destructive women. I dinna suppose you have such women in your country?"
• (Gene Kelly) "Witches?"
• (Van Johnson) "Oh we have 'em. We pronounce it differently."

Gene Kelly as Tommy Albright

• (Gene Kelly) "Look -- I'm not saying I believe all this, but just for argument's sake -- suppose -- suppose a stranger like -- well, like -- like me -- came to Brigadoon and wanted to stay. Could he?"
• (Barry Jones) "Aye, he could. Mr. Forsythe provided for that."
• (Van Johnson) "He didn't miss a trick, did he?"
• (Barry Jones) "No, lad, he didna. No, a stranger could stay if he loved someone here -- not Brigadoon itself, mind, but someone in Brigadoon -- enough to be willing to give up everything to stay near that person -- which is only right because after all, lad -- if you love someone deeply enough, anything is possible."

• (Gene Kelly) "You told me you were going to ease up."
• (Van Johnson) "Yeah I know, but I'm a terrible liar."

• (Gene Kelly) "Let me ask you something -- suppose someone in Brigadoon got fed up and wanted to leave? What then?"
• (Barry Jones) "Och, he canna leave."
• (Van Johnson) "You mean I've got to stay here now?"

• (Gene Kelly) "It's hot in here."
• (Van Johnson) "It's not the heat, it's the humanity."

Jimmy Thompson as Charlie Chisholm Dalrymple

• (Jimmy Thompson) "And may God bless me this evening as much as I would bless Him if I were He and He were Charles Dalrymple."

Albert Sharpe as Andrew Campbell

• (Albert Sharpe) "You'll never find peace by hating, lad. It only shuts ye off more from the world. And this town is only a cursed place, if ye make it so. To the rest of us, 'tis a blessed place."

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